 | Allen Johnson - United States - 1918 - 280 pages
...drinking to the seigneur's health and to the health of all his kin, the merry company returned to then: homes, leaving behind them the pole as a souvenir...country came into new and alien hands that Canadian seigneur ialisrn became a barrier to economic progress and an obsolete system which had to be abolished.... | |
 | United States - 1918 - 296 pages
...and she does not bristle with fees, costs, and charges. " Throughout the French period there was no complaint from the habitants concerning the burdens...obsolete system which had to be abolished. CHAPTER IX THE COTJHEURS-DE-BOIS THE center and soul of the economic system in New France was the traffic in furs.... | |
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... by affording a firm foundation for the colony's social structure, and by contributing greatly to the defensive unity of New France. So long as the land was weak and depended for its very existence upon the solidarity of its people, so long as the... 